Android 2.2 for the HTC EVO 4G has officially landed! Don’t worry, there’s no six step process to manually download and install the update. Just go into your phones settings (menu > settings > system updates > firmware update) to see if it’s your turn to download the update.

Sprint and HTC will be staggering the downloaded so that their servers are not overwhelmed all at once. But if you’re not willing to wait a few days to get a taste of Froyo, try changing the date on your EVO. We bumped out handset’s date up by two weeks and immediately received a notification that a firmware update was available to download. The 84.4MB update took nearly an hour to download and roughly 10 minutes to install.

So how did the install process go for you? What’s your favorite new Froyo feature on the EVO 4G?

New features with Android 2.2 on the EVO 4G

Android Market Improvements (update all, move apps to SD)

Updated FM radio with new widget

Flashlight app

LED light support for video recording

Google News and Weather application/widgets

Adobe Flash 10.1

App Sharing

Nick is a tech enthusiast who has a soft spot for HTC and its devices. He started HTCsource.com (the first HTC blog) back in 2007 and later joined the Android and Me family in the summer of 2010.

It was horrendous on an already frustrating time I am having with the Evo 4G as of the last 2 weeks. The phone has begun doing random restarts under heavy data sessions. Its as if the phone cant handle data intesive tasks. Updated to 2.2 hoping it would stop, but no luck….for 10mins straight the phone kept doing restarts and would not let me get to the homescreen. This is a case that is going on with many Evo owners….And now Im officially pissed…..Btw i have done soft resets and hard resets, and no luck…..Its done occasional resets, and then gone on a farting spree and done back to back resets…….I even went as far and ROM’d back to stock to do the 2.2 update, and it does this?

Sounds liek you may have a defective unit. I’d take it into a Sprint store and have them give you a new phone. Sprint it really good about replaceing/fixing phone for their customers. I actually had a friend who was having issues with his Hero. Since they couldn’t fix the problem they just gave him the EVO instead.

Yeah dude… I think you did something wrong. I did have a few issues with my phone restarting but that was caused by a app i downloaded that wasn’t compatible with the EVO. I did a hard reset and restored back to default (cleared memory/cache and everything)… My phone is great now. No issues what so ever. Froyo rocks!

Wow, the date trick is great. As soon as I switched the date, I got the message to downlaod the update. Froyo is nothing earth shattering. I know it’s supposed to be faster, but have not really noticed any speed improvements yet (never has any speed issue before).

I’d say the LEd flashlight apps is pretty cool and I love the App Sharing app. I’ve used it a half dozen times already today.

how would you do this official update if you’ve already done the unofficial update?
i just did the official yesterday, i should’ve waited one more day for the official but i couldnt take the wait. im very impatient when it comes to new things for my phone. haha

Moving the date up to get the 2.2 update notification worked. I uninstalled the LED Light app while dwnloading 2.2 hoping I won’t run into the “camera not working” issue. I’ll report back later with any issues I encounter with the update, if any. Thanks guys.

do you mean in settings the 720p setting is gone? Im one of the ones that did the unofficial update, when I go to the video camera options and its says
720P(1280 x 720)
WVGA(800 x 480)
VGA(640 x 480)
CIF(352 x 288)
QVGA(320×240

From the home screen, go to Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications. The default tab will be your downloaded apps. Tap on the app you want to move, and you’ll see a “Move to SD card” button in the “Storage” section.

Not every app can be moved to the SD card. If it can’t be moved, the button will be grayed out.

From the home screen, go to Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications. The default tab will be your downloaded apps. Tap on the app you want to move, and you’ll see a “Move to SD card” button in the “Storage” section.

Not every app can be moved to the SD card. If it can’t be moved, the button will be grayed out.

Developers have not triggered thier apps to do so yet. I think we should start a petition. We should reserve the right to move our apps to the SD Card. Not have to wait for developers to trigger this affect.

I upped the date and dowloaded the update but when i go to install it on my phone, my phone reboots into the recovery screen everytime. i rooted my phone and was running cm6 but switched back to a stock rom so i could get the official update. HELP!

sooooo…..I have rooted my EVO…..I can’t get the download via wifi or network to work….it restarts and “bricks” at “Caution/Android” logo….anyone????? Is there a place to down load it and put it in my SD card and Unzip?????

Thanks to Google n Sprint for getting this out so quick. Anything Apple can do Google can do better. My youngest bro-in-law is jealous of my screen and his brother is getting his Evo tomorrow. Ezpezy download. Took about a half hour via WiFi. I check Monday when I got home from work and the update was waiting for me. Next just need Sprint to get

Thanks to Google n Sprint for getting this out so quick. Anything Apple can do Google can do better. My youngest bro-in-law is jealous of my screen and his brother is getting his Evo tomorrow. Ezpezy download. Took about a half hour via WiFi. I check Monday when I got home from work and the update was waiting for me. Next just need Sprint to get LA on 4G

My Evo in not rooted! Unless Sprint sold it to me rooted… But it doesnt work like that so maybe they caught onto the whole date trick and fixed it. I am new to the Android world as the Evo is my first, and learning as much as I can. Can anyone else that hasnt updated try the date trick and report if they it worked.

Got the update yesterday via HTC software updates. No up the date either. Took about 10-15 minutes for download and install. I have noticed that its faster. Love the LED’s on camcorder and the file attachment feature on texts. I have been recording voice messages and sending them as MMS texts all day. if that was on 2.1 i didn’t notice it. but so far everything works great.

i wish I would have seen this post a few days back. JUst bumped up the date and downloaded the update. I’m loving the new white layout in Gtalk, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the fact that the new Gtalk automatically pulls in your chat history, somethign the old one didn’t do.